Frank and Fearless: A Life in Boxing

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Mt grandmother used to mail me postcards like this (blank ones) so I would write to her. She died seven years ago, and I just found this one in the attic. I'm sorry, Grandma. ...I should have written more." The second-to-worst PostSecret book. The term for most of these secrets today is "vaguebooking." Other secrets are targeted at a single person, as if the creator were more interested in shaming that one person rather than bearing their soul. Some aren't even secrets so much as they are, "Look at me!" statements or competitive introversion. The concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. [1] Frank Warren has spent forty years working with boxing's most colourful and controversial characters. In his long-awaited autobiography, he reflects on the battles he had to win to reach the top and remain there, not least the battle to stay alive after he was shot at point-blank range in an attempted assassination in 1989.

Warren has stated that he includes a secret of his own in each of the PostSecret books. His "secret" is not anonymous like most; rather, Warren signs his. For example: "Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, that secret is actually keeping us. -Frank" [9]On October 11, 2009, Warren took a break, posting a video and apology saying that he was busy touring, and urging readers to buy the book PostSecret Confessions on Life, Death and God. In April 2008, Warren teamed up with 1-800-suicide to answer some of these anonymous cries for help through peer run crisis hotlines on college campuses. [4] But the book isn't one of the larger PostSecret books are there are some truly great secrets within. Ones that are strange, funny, sad and most importantly specific. The more specific a secret, the more meaningful it is when it touches a part of us.

With cameo appearances from Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Pink Floyd and the Philadelphia mafia, Frank and Fearless is the unflinchingly candid and hard-hitting memoir of Britain's most famous and influential boxing promoter. McNichol, Tom (2007). "PostSecret". TIME.Com's First Annual Blog Index. Time . Retrieved 17 March 2014. a b Meyers, Michelle. "PostSecret shuts down iphone app due to abusive posts". CNet . Retrieved 2 April 2013. However, Warren seems not to favour too many people and the score-settling escalates to industrial levels akin to Father Ted’s Golden Cleric acceptance speech. Boxing promoter rivals, especially father and son Barry and Eddie Hearn (“Eddie’s hardly had to do it the hard way”), are shown no mercy. Neither are boxers Barry McGuigan (“another who disappointed me”) and Chris Eubank, whose reputation Warren destroys with one hideous anecdote, while Frank Bruno’s ex-wife Laura is “an absolute pain”.I found it to be beautiful and inspiring and heartbreaking and funny and depressing all at once. Some secrets made me laugh, a few made me cry, I judged some, I felt like praying for others, but almost all made me feel something, and I think that's what I loved most about it. The book, and the project as a whole, touched me and elicited emotional reactions. After browsing the book a bit on the sale section of National Bookstore, I impulsively decided to own a copy of it. The problem then was I didn't bring enough cash with me and the worst part was, they don't allow debit! And since it was already closing time, my friend suggested to have the book reserved and the saleslady agreed to do so. On my lunch break the following day, I bought the book (not caring that it is worth a pair of shoes or an ok pair of jeans) and read the whole thing after my officemate did. I would have to say it is one of the best compilations I have ever come across in my entire life. It is inspiring. It made me more human. It made me realize that despite of the pain that I experienced--and is experiencing, I have never felt more human and that life is still beautiful. The 1973 book Variable Piece 4: Secrets by the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler (one of many works in his Variable Piece series) was a compilation of nearly 1800 secrets written by random people.

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (December 1, 2005) ( ISBN 0-06-089919-0) [19] If you can't read the text on this blurry photo, it says: "In November 2004, I printed 3000 postcards inviting people to share a secret with me..." The would-be assassin didn’t miss. The bullet passed through a lung, but bypassed an artery and missed Warren’s heart by millimetres. A former client, troubled boxer Terry Marsh, was tried and acquitted on a 10-2 majority verdict. “So there were two people convinced it was him…” shrugs Warren. However, while he declares “I know with cast-iron certainty who it was”, he seems not to have shared this perhaps crucial information with, say, the police.

Boxing faces a fight for its soul

This was my first PostSecret book and I just had to get more once I finished this one. I really loved it. I am actually thinking of startin to send my own post cards to PostSecret. This book made me feel really think. For some reason, My Secret made me want to go on some huge Art spree and just do whatever makes me happy. It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. Casey, Laura. (March 4, 2009) "Walnut Creek hosts 800 PostSecret fans at Lesher Center," East Bay Times. Retrieved on August 1, 2016. Frank Warren has compiled his secret postcards into several volumes now but this book was my first experience with them. My son gave it to me for Christmas - a friend recommended it to him and he knew this was something I would find intriguing. I did! I loved it. This book is geared toward sharing the secrets of younger people. Not sure exactly how he knew the senders age group but I can see from the photo and topics that he might have made a fairly accurate guess. The secrets are meant to be empowering both to the author and to those who read them. Frank Warren claims that the postcards are inspirational to those who read them, have healing powers for those who write them, give hope to people who identify with a stranger's secret, and create an anonymous community of acceptance. [9]